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@juli·4 days ago
IMO most in crypto are up to Connect their wallets to a Social Media & experiment, share stuff with Friends, send tokens, use apps & play games ..
But it would help if the Social Media was interesting. farcaster is neither appealing to crypto Folks, nor outsiders, nor small Communities (niche tech chats, no Token Alpha except for farcaster tokens, no entertainment).
My core assumption is different but GTM conclusion the same:
Steps with Coinbase aren‘t wrong (but maybe early) but the platform & current users aren‘t good/fun/unique/simple/convenient/inviting enough to onboard newcomers (clusters) & retain them. (See Facebook strategy: Stuck with 1st exclusive bubble)
Why? No one puts enough time into farcaster/channel/community growth.
Compare to: Every influencer on Insta running a well- curated feed & doing collabs; every private group on telegram posting „good“ content, & advertising Via influencers; every crypto discord Server pays employees to post & mod (but only get inflows via twitter)
But it would help if the Social Media was interesting. farcaster is neither appealing to crypto Folks, nor outsiders, nor small Communities (niche tech chats, no Token Alpha except for farcaster tokens, no entertainment).
My core assumption is different but GTM conclusion the same:
Steps with Coinbase aren‘t wrong (but maybe early) but the platform & current users aren‘t good/fun/unique/simple/convenient/inviting enough to onboard newcomers (clusters) & retain them. (See Facebook strategy: Stuck with 1st exclusive bubble)
Why? No one puts enough time into farcaster/channel/community growth.
Compare to: Every influencer on Insta running a well- curated feed & doing collabs; every private group on telegram posting „good“ content, & advertising Via influencers; every crypto discord Server pays employees to post & mod (but only get inflows via twitter)
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I found this rabbit crossing the road today while I was driving and I had to keep it. Named it Bad Bunny right away.
I took it to the vet, did X Ray. They say nothing is broken but it can’t walk and doesn’t seem to have sensitivity in their legs. Got antiinflamatories, now let’s see how it develops in the next hours.
I took it to the vet, did X Ray. They say nothing is broken but it can’t walk and doesn’t seem to have sensitivity in their legs. Got antiinflamatories, now let’s see how it develops in the next hours.
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@rev-morwen.eth·5 days ago
Sounds solid. I'm hoping to snipe as many potential users/followers with that spike but wouldn't be surprised if it's a flash in the pan.
As a mini-app game designer, I'm willing to bet most people are more than willing to pay for a game/app without any expectation of financial incentives, as long as it's fun and well designed. P2E isn't as wanted as cryptobros would like to assume.
Normies don't care about earning money, and will gladly throw money at you if you give them the right dopamine hit. That's why platforms like Steam have been so successful.
As a mini-app game designer, I'm willing to bet most people are more than willing to pay for a game/app without any expectation of financial incentives, as long as it's fun and well designed. P2E isn't as wanted as cryptobros would like to assume.
Normies don't care about earning money, and will gladly throw money at you if you give them the right dopamine hit. That's why platforms like Steam have been so successful.
Looking forward to getting some weekly rewards with these hot takes 😈
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Just donated to Farcaster's RetroPGF round! 🌟
Backing the builders who are creating impact and building Farcaster's future. Let's grow together! ✨
Backing the builders who are creating impact and building Farcaster's future. Let's grow together! ✨
1/2 My forecast for 2025 is that the integration of Farcaster’s social layer in Coinbase Wallet will be a spectacular failure.
We'll probably see a spike when it comes out of beta (after all, there’s a segment of Coinbase Wallet users who enjoy trying out new things and if they do it well people will try it out) but I predict that by the end of summer, no more than 5% of messages will come from there, and DAUs via Coinbase will be negligible.
The reasons? Current Farcaster status quo simply isn’t appealing outside an extremely narrow niche. People don’t want a social layer tied to their wallets. And 99% of people don't give a fuck about financial incentives (basing a significant part of your growth strategy on that is shooting yourself in the foot. It’s a massive trap that could be very difficult to escape from).
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We'll probably see a spike when it comes out of beta (after all, there’s a segment of Coinbase Wallet users who enjoy trying out new things and if they do it well people will try it out) but I predict that by the end of summer, no more than 5% of messages will come from there, and DAUs via Coinbase will be negligible.
The reasons? Current Farcaster status quo simply isn’t appealing outside an extremely narrow niche. People don’t want a social layer tied to their wallets. And 99% of people don't give a fuck about financial incentives (basing a significant part of your growth strategy on that is shooting yourself in the foot. It’s a massive trap that could be very difficult to escape from).
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After weeks of keeping everything in silence, I'm happy to finally share what we've been doing at @vocdoni!
We're building DAVINCI, a voting protocol based on a L1 zkRollup and designed to solve the problems of both traditional and onchain voting.
And that includes anonymous, flexible, gasless and anticoercion voting for DAOs with the same level of guarantees as onchain voting!
Testnet is coming this June 2025, if you want to test it out, join the waitlist:
https://davinci.deform.cc/waitlist/
To know more:
https://davinci.vote
We're building DAVINCI, a voting protocol based on a L1 zkRollup and designed to solve the problems of both traditional and onchain voting.
And that includes anonymous, flexible, gasless and anticoercion voting for DAOs with the same level of guarantees as onchain voting!
Testnet is coming this June 2025, if you want to test it out, join the waitlist:
https://davinci.deform.cc/waitlist/
To know more:
https://davinci.vote
It’s funny but this is exactly how new traditions and cultural peculiarities get started
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Thanks @kmacb.eth for these great pins and @ahn.eth for sending them to me with a kewl @quidli sticker ❤️
Man, I’m dying seeing all these techno/crypto bros drunk on their own delusions, walking around with these god complexes. It’s not even what they say, it’s their messianic tone like they’ve received some divine code.
Hundreds of powerful (and fully biased) men convinced they’re the architects of a “better world,” as if the rest of us are just waiting for their grand design.
But the reality is that guys like Brian Armstrong are pathetic, nothing more than fragile egos wrapped in Silicon Valley cosplay, strutting around with delusions of grandeur and zero self-awareness. And zero knowledge of how the rest of the world works, needs or wishes.
Hundreds of powerful (and fully biased) men convinced they’re the architects of a “better world,” as if the rest of us are just waiting for their grand design.
But the reality is that guys like Brian Armstrong are pathetic, nothing more than fragile egos wrapped in Silicon Valley cosplay, strutting around with delusions of grandeur and zero self-awareness. And zero knowledge of how the rest of the world works, needs or wishes.
If you’ve sometimes thought “does Web3 even matter in the real world?” this episode of @tbsocialist is for you!
We chatted with Josh about @vocdoni, why decentralized governance actually matters (especially with democracies falling apart), and some of the things we’ve been working on with all sorts of Real World™ orgs.
We chatted with Josh about @vocdoni, why decentralized governance actually matters (especially with democracies falling apart), and some of the things we’ve been working on with all sorts of Real World™ orgs.
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@tbsocialist·11:24 27/03/2025
WTF…
People are getting financially incentivized (via a promise of future airdrops) to link all their public identities, where they post different stuff -sometimes even geo location- with their crypto wallets.
This is very irresponsible. I’m not against establishing Proof of Humanity mechanisms (in fact I’m in favor), I’m just sad they are doing it this way.
For the first time, I’m seriously thinking about leaving Warpcast soon if this keeps going in that direction.
People are getting financially incentivized (via a promise of future airdrops) to link all their public identities, where they post different stuff -sometimes even geo location- with their crypto wallets.
This is very irresponsible. I’m not against establishing Proof of Humanity mechanisms (in fact I’m in favor), I’m just sad they are doing it this way.
For the first time, I’m seriously thinking about leaving Warpcast soon if this keeps going in that direction.
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Personal take:
Warpcast seems to be moving further away from mass adoption with each passing day.
Maybe they will succeed in attracting a slice of CT (a target already motivated by economic incentives) but at the same time this is a GtM strategy that will likely exclude 99% of people.
Hard to believe the whole Merkle team sees people this narrowly, so I think there are big chances that this strategy is intentional, at least for the short to mid term. They are sacrificing “normie” adoption to ensure growth numbera with “degens”.
Warpcast seems to be moving further away from mass adoption with each passing day.
Maybe they will succeed in attracting a slice of CT (a target already motivated by economic incentives) but at the same time this is a GtM strategy that will likely exclude 99% of people.
Hard to believe the whole Merkle team sees people this narrowly, so I think there are big chances that this strategy is intentional, at least for the short to mid term. They are sacrificing “normie” adoption to ensure growth numbera with “degens”.
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Great article by @sheldrake on Identity, reusable KYC, and why decentralization alone isn’t always the answer if our designs end up replicating the problems of centralized identities, and maybe even more efficiently.
https://generative-identity.org/reusable-kyc/
https://generative-identity.org/reusable-kyc/
You have to love the technobros hyping Elon Musk and Starlink while totally ignoring that it’s a surveillance tool and a step backward for internet decentralization. That also nukes all cypherpunk values
But hey, who needs principles when you live in your own post-crypto bubble without solving real world problems?
But hey, who needs principles when you live in your own post-crypto bubble without solving real world problems?
I’m a bit tired of crypto, ngl.
The greed, the useless projects, the BS, the Ponzi schemes, the Goldberg machines. These projects always have easy access to funds and attention. I didn’t join crypto 12 years ago for this.
We have a really powerful technology that could drive change to the World. But unfortunately, the best projects have really bad time convincing people, investors and becoming attractive. If you’re not heavily speculative token-driven project, a DeFi casino or a memecoin… good luck.
Sells more to build for the crypto bubble than for the World. That’s the reality today. And like this, we keep killing crypto utility slowly, even if we think we’re growing.
It’s painful to see the best projects always struggling.
The greed, the useless projects, the BS, the Ponzi schemes, the Goldberg machines. These projects always have easy access to funds and attention. I didn’t join crypto 12 years ago for this.
We have a really powerful technology that could drive change to the World. But unfortunately, the best projects have really bad time convincing people, investors and becoming attractive. If you’re not heavily speculative token-driven project, a DeFi casino or a memecoin… good luck.
Sells more to build for the crypto bubble than for the World. That’s the reality today. And like this, we keep killing crypto utility slowly, even if we think we’re growing.
It’s painful to see the best projects always struggling.
I'm doing some testing, and I would like your help.
Do you hold $DEGEN in the vault ($LDEGEN)?
Try casting a vote in this Frame!
⚠️ Remember, this is just a test, not a real vote!
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Do you hold $DEGEN in the vault ($LDEGEN)?
Try casting a vote in this Frame!
⚠️ Remember, this is just a test, not a real vote!
https://frame.vote/tZJyKejJ
Every year, more and more city councils choose blockchain technology to boost citizen's participation.
It’s the logical choice = low costs and high guarantees
🗳️❤️And Vocdoni is the project making this possible ❤️🗳️
It’s the logical choice = low costs and high guarantees
🗳️❤️And Vocdoni is the project making this possible ❤️🗳️
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